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“I often think about death and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much,” quote by Fernando Botero — Download Open image

“I often think about death and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much,”

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In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

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Man needs spiritual expression and nourishing... even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves.

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I work more now perhaps because I know that there is so little time left.

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Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life.

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I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic Reality.

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Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism…

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The richness of an artist is the fusion of influences that have shaped his life and work.

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When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.

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Sculptures permit me to create real volume One can touch the forms, one can give them smoothness, the sensuality that one wants.

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